Lesbian writer and columnist Beth Elliott, on her webpage, shares
some sharp observations about being a nonlefty lesbian in the San
Franscisco Bay Area. For example, she writes:
A young friend doing the standard turning-up of her nose and saying she hoped Bush couldn't get anything done. I retorted that, for her sake, she should hope he succeeded at giving her a shot at a private retirement account. She immediately launched into a tirade about how she, working McJobs while going up against unemployed dot-com transplants with only her fresh bachelor's degree, really needed the money she was being taxed to pay for other people's Social Security benefits. My point exactly, I confirmed.
Bitingly, she also notes of the recent death of anti-gay
footballer Reggie White, at age 43, that:
A lot of Reggie White's bigot friends have been trying to pass of as scientific research the notion that "the homosexual lifestyle" is so destructive that our average life span is...43. Far be it from me to make sweeping statements about anybody else's karma . . .
Worth bookmarking.
--Stephen H. Miller